David More wrote: > All, > > NEHTA have just released the General Practitioner and Specialist/Critical > Care Referral > Data Content Specifications v1.0. Its a small document of some almost 500 > pages. > > You can find it here. > > https://www.nehta.gov.au/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=176&Itemid=139 > > I am curious to know from the technical experts among this group. > > 1. Just how practical, implementable and workable is this specification? > > 2. How likely is it that any system developer will implement it in the > forseeable future? > > 3. Do people think this project is adding anything that will make a > difference to health > service quality and safety anytime soon?
Dear Dr Eric Browne at NEHTA, Please provide the substantive contents of your document (that is, the list of data items and all their attributes, relationships etc) in a machine-parsable format (eg a comma-separated value file or files) so that we may slice, dice and manipulate the information in a way that allows us to digest it and otherwise get some handle on it. You will appreciate that the number of people who are able to get their head around a 500 page text document, without the use of other tools, is very small. We are not dummies, but nevertheless the rest of us need to use computerised tools to help us understand the contents of your document, and for that we need computer-parsable data files, not just a PDF designed to be printed and then read by (some very unusual kind of) a human. Tim Churches _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
